i think the judge was hard on them. mostly in terms of moving it along. term, it prevail. >> neil: i'm sorry, i left you out with all of these breaking news demo months. we are told that the senates is being moved to august 29th. what do you expect? >> i think that this is an interesting illustration. walking side-by-side with cohen, we see how many years that manafort is facing. that is exactly the risk that a defendant runs by going to trial. i want to point out for viewers that this is an opportunity for manafort to actually turn over some further information. it is a last chance that he can cooperate with prosecutors to have them lighten a potential sentence in their recommendation. it is honestly not a slam-dunk at all. speaking of slam-dunk's, i want to point something else out for viewers as well. in the charges here, the return verdict, we have an interesting pattern here. certain things that the media